Many Australian marsupials closely resemble placental mammals. This is called:

A. parallel evolution
B. homologous evolution
C. convergent evolution
D. archetypical evolution


C. convergent evolution

Anthropology & Archaeology

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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In their work of meeting the challenges of globalization in human communities, anthropologists are ____, meaning they take into account many interacting factors to understand the functioning of a complex whole

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